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Also, do any of you know how to do CRT repairs? Apparently working on them is like that scene in MacGuyver...  It doesn't matter which one. I have this wickedly bright RCA-video green phosphor screen with a busted horizontal diversion magnetic field thingy so it only shows a vertical line and all of the advice online is all either some south east asian kid talking in words that make no sense to me while pointing at electronics that make very little sense to me or I haven't watched them yet. Everyone else online seems to say that they're about as dangerous to work on as an IED on a street in Mosul and/or Fallujah. I'll be doing some more research this week into the process so I can not hit myself with a high voltage charge or shards of glass from the rapid recompression of the vacuum inside the tube. Sorry to disappoint the typical goony lust for schadenfreude so early in this process.I have these, too, but no keyboards and the ones on eBay are more expensive than it would be worth to see if they even work anymore. $80 a pop isn't really worth it. Who knows, maybe as I clean this place out more, I'll find something.  Any interesting ideas of things to do that don't involve destroying these relics of a bygone age? If nothing tickles my fancy, I'll probably end up getting them recycled.
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actually oc stands for orange catte, op
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Apr 16, 2015 13:39
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That cat looks how I feel.
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fat?
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definitely open them up and poke around with a coat hanger or metal-handled screwdriver. The high voltage scare tactic is just a ploy from Big TV to make you go buy a new set instead of fixing it yourself.
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i mean it has an ABSOLUTE maximum of 120 volts going into it. If you know your Ohm's law (like I do), you know that more electricity isn't made by the TV as it's not a generator or battery. So the worst case voltage you'd see is 120. You know what else sees 120 volts? An incredibly fragile light bulb. You know, those things that literally smash into pieces if you drop them? Yeah they can take 120 volts for thousands of hours. Still think you're at risk from anything inside a TV?
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this one time me and my friends found like a 17 inch crt in the woods, and my huge friend picked it up and started swinging it around by the power cord but then it flew off the cord and nearly hit someone
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Apr 16, 2015 18:42
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just turn an old hollowed out CRT into a cat bed
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pram posted:fat? That too.
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Jonny 290 posted:i mean it has an ABSOLUTE maximum of 120 volts going into it. If you know your Ohm's law (like I do), you know that more electricity isn't made by the TV as it's not a generator or battery. So the worst case voltage you'd see is 120. You know what else sees 120 volts? An incredibly fragile light bulb. You know, those things that literally smash into pieces if you drop them? Yeah they can take 120 volts for thousands of hours. lmbo
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Jonny 290 posted:i mean it has an ABSOLUTE maximum of 120 volts going into it. If you know your Ohm's law (like I do), you know that more electricity isn't made by the TV as it's not a generator or battery. So the worst case voltage you'd see is 120. You know what else sees 120 volts? An incredibly fragile light bulb. You know, those things that literally smash into pieces if you drop them? Yeah they can take 120 volts for thousands of hours. Seriously, nut up chump
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Apr 17, 2015 01:46
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I have an apple ][e complete with the green screen monitor with the tilt thing
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Apr 17, 2015 01:47
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So I take it you never got to Gauss or Faraday?
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jony ive aces posted:actually oc stands for orange catte, op came here to post this, man you're always on the ball
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pram posted:fat? fat is not a feeling!
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it's a lifestyle
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do a small prayer in front of the screen to dispel any remaining joules
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